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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If a contamination hazard forces Cambridge to take water from the Quabbin reservoir, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be "hard-pressed" to supply water to all its customers, said M. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC's director of watershed management. Extremely low levels of rainfall this winter have already prompted state...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Water Risk May Affect Boston | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

Last week India's Supreme Court unexpectedly announced a settlement of all claims against the chemical company at a price that surprised and angered many Indians. Union Carbide has agreed to pay the Indian government a lump sum of $470 million by March 23. The money will be distributed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damages For A Deadly Cloud | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Last week the Warsaw weekly Odrodzenie published a secret wartime report produced by the Polish Red Cross and uncovered two years ago by a historian in Britain's Public Record Office. The report set the date of the murders between March and May of 1940, more than a year before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Reopening an Old Wound | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

A Harvard professor has turned down a position as head of the state Ethics Commission to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus Archibald Cox '34 said he declined the chair of the commission because he already heads Common Cause, a citizens' lobby group headquartered...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Cox Turns Down Post as Chair Of State Commission on Ethics | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

Dukakis is supposed to unveil a new package of ethics policies as soon as he finds a replacement for former Chair of the Ethics Commission Colin Diver. The package is expected to include an ethics hand-book, tighter restrictions on college trust funds and codes of conduct for all state...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Cox Turns Down Post as Chair Of State Commission on Ethics | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

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